Jason Burke

Jason Burke is a business leader, strategist, and technologist focused on enabling health ecosystem transformation through data sciences.

In addition to his work as an independent consultant in informatics, Burke presently serves as an executive advisor to the UNC Health Care System, and holds a visiting faculty appointment with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He has held leadership and management roles in organizations such as SAS, Microsoft, Quintiles, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Burke's work focuses on innovations in strategy, design, information management, emerging technologies, product development, advanced analytics and decision support. He has appeared in numerous publications including Forbes, InformationWeek, Health Management Technology, PharmaVoice, Drug Discovery and Development, and BioIT World. Burke has served on the boards of multiple industry organizations as well as a faculty member of the International Institute for Analytics.

Dr. Michael Rosenberg
I have struggled this week to accept the death of Dr. Michael Rosenberg, Founder and CEO of Health Decisions. Michael was an inspiring friend to me, and one of a handful of people that regularly gave me confidence in innovation.
Michael and I would meet periodically at a local coffee shop. These times for me were always treasured opportunities to connect with someone else passionate about our industry. We talked about pharmaceutical and he

Health Data Management invited me to come back this year for their annual Healthcare Analytics Symposium. Here is a copy of the talk I gave.
If you would like to see the talk I gave during the first year of the event, I covered it in a previous post which you can find here. Thanks to HDM for the opportunity to share my thoughts and experiences on where we need to go in health analytics.

I’ve been invited to appear on an AllAnalytics.com radio show tomorrow (Monday, 7-Oct-2013) called Making Medicine Smarter. We are going to talk about health analytics, the book, and all things health care. The show will air live at 2PM Eastern US, and you can hear it by going to http://www.allanalytics.com/radio.asp?doc_id=267367. There will also be an after-show text chat on the AllAnalytics message board if you want to dive deeper on any topics. Hope you can jo

I recently had an interesting Twitter exchange with my friend Dan Munro over at Forbes regarding a KevinMD posting, Quality is a Word that Lacks Universal Meaning. The article touched on one of my book topics: the industry’s reporting-centric, manufacturing-oriented conceptualization of quality is ambiguous and unreflective of the problem space. We need to look at quality differently.
Dan raised the concern of data — do we really have the data to s

Well, today is the day — Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care is finally out! I promised to cover the book in more detail, so today I thought I would take the opportunity to answer some of the more common questions that I get asked about the book.What is the book about?
The book is about transforming health care and life sciences through data-driven innovations. It describes a roadmap for growing organizational capabilities across a broad range of

Last time, I proposed that organizations looking to build or participate in risk-delegated delivery models (like ACOs) would be well served to look at the discipline of enterprise architecture (EA).
For those not familiar with enterprise architecture, you can think of it as a management framework for an effective, efficient, agile, and durable technology portfolio aligned to business process needs. Various definitions of enterprise architecture abound, but my favorite comes from

A few weeks ago, CCHIT released it’s HIT Framework for Accountable Care. The 42-page document is “designed as a starting point for provider groups developing HIT roadmaps, for payers looking to assess or complement the HIT capabilities of their provider partners and for HIT developers designing products to fill gaps in currently available technology.” And I really like the document. It puts the first stake in the ground in terms of how to consider an IT strategy that support

One of the questions I get asked frequently is the difference between business intelligence and health analytics. And I struggle with a good answer; there is so much inconsistency in the use of terminology in this space, and to answer the question requires that you be able to cleanly define terms like “business intelligence.” But I do think it is an important question, as how you answer the question implies quite a lot in terms of what you need to be doing operationally.
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As many of you know, I’ve spent the past few months writing a book on health analytics and informatics. I’m pleased to be able to report that, as of last week, the fully-complete draft is in the hands of my editors! So I thought now might be a good time to give you a sneak peek into what’s in store.
The working title of the book is Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care. It is all about EMRs. Just kidding. I’d probably sell a few m